Bill Heron: Writer, Editor, Proofreader

Category: Edinburgh Gaming

  • Where have all the GMs gone?

    It’s a little ironic that up until recently, the Open Roleplaying Community Edinburgh (http://orcedinburgh.co.uk) suffered from a lack of players and a venue. Now we’ve got plenty of players and venues… and no one to run RPGs 🙁 Seriously. That’s how much it has changed recently: from what used to be lots of people wanting…

  • Dark & Dangerous

    Well, I completed my work on the The Secret Fire RPG yesterday, right on schedule. Having never been involved on developing an RPG on a real basis, this has proved something of a learning curve for me. It will be officially released at GenCon – yes, THAT GenCon! When you design as part of a team,…

  • An ORC Horde

    As I recently posted on the ORC Edinburgh site and Facebook page, ORC has a lot of players and the site is the busiest I’ve seen it in a while. I find it a little ironic really that D&D is the most popular game, yet so few want to run it. With that in mind,…

  • Beta Game

    There’s a certain SQUEE!!!! factor to this: I was recently contacted by George Strayton, an Origins-nominated games designer (and also the writer for several TV series and movies: Xena, Hercules, Cleopatra 2525, Transformers, Star Trek, and the forthcoming Xombie movie). He also wrote the script for the Dragonlance movie. He’s in Edinburgh in early May…

  • Gamer Friendly Venues in Edinburgh

    The recent fire at the Meadow Bar has got me thinking: are there any pubs left in Edinburgh with free function rooms? Given the credit crunch, I’d suspect that there may be fewer centrally – although further out of town there may be more! So far I’ve got a list of the following pubs/cafes that…

  • ORC: Looking forward, looking back

    It is hard to believe that I’ve been maintaining the site at http://orcedinburgh.co.uk for over a year after taking stewardship from Dave @ KOA. I got my renewal reminder from the hosting company the other day. Hopefully I’ve managed to continue the same tradition of keeping the community open to all gamers in Edinburgh. The…

  • Building a Community Website

    A recent query got me thinking. Over the years I’ve done quite a bit on the website here and on the ORC community website recently, and it has given me a bit of an insight into website creation and the technologies involved. Most universities allow their societies some web space that they can use to…

  • Road to Hell: Creating Arunstoun

    This early sunrise malarkey is really messing up my sleep patterns: I keep waking up at 5am. As a side effect, I appear to be having very vivid dreams: I’ve had some great ideas for a new location for Cthulhutech and Call of Cthulhu, as well as a short story or two. It’s a fictional…

  • ORC: Through the Looking Glass

    It’s been a fairly achieving week for so far – Cthulhutech ran really well at ORC, and the whammy at the end surprised my players! The Cthulhutech game is set in Edinburgh, and it worked very well – although a few players were a bit put out when they found out that I nobbled the…

  • ORC Edinburgh – I am your master now

    I think the bus driver must have hit every single pothole in the road between Penicuik and Leith on the way home tonight. Or the suspension on the bus had gone. Either way, it was a bumpy hour-long journey! It looks like the Edinburgh RPG scene’s main event Conpulsion will be on the 26-28th March,…